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UK
/ʌnfˈɪtnəs/
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NOUN
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the quality of not being suitable
the judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment - poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
- lacking the power to perform
How To Use unfitness In A Sentence
- The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
- The court also has a power to appoint new trustees and to remove a trustee for unfitness or misconduct.
- These new proposals should go a long way to help tackle problems of unfitness and disrepair which are all too common in this sector.
- Authorised Version, 'If thou canst _believe_' -- throwing, as it were, the responsibility on the man -- but it is a quotation of the father's own word, 'If Thou _canst_,' as if He waved it aside with superb recognition of its utter unfitness to the present case. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
- The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
- This arises from an understanding of the notion of incapacity covered by Article 35 as being confined to physical or mental incapacity as distinct from unfitness to serve.
- The main body of complaints of unfitness to practice by reason of physical or mental disability were linked to substance abuse, she said.
- It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. The Woodlanders
- the judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment
- Upon which account also man's unfitness to judge of the proceedings of Providence shall be now made out to us, by considering those false rules and grounds by which men generally forejudge of the issue and event of actions: as, Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.